Thresholds of Beauty | Sophie Freshwater | $7500 | 72 × 145 cm (H × W, framed; diptych) | Oil on birch panel; featuring layered glazes creating luminous transparency.

Thresholds of Beauty explores beauty beyond appearance. A greyhound occupies the space between domestic security and its own reflection, symbolising resilience, vulnerability and hope. Inspired by rescue greyhounds, the work proposes that true beauty lies in the capacity to endure uncertainty, trust and remain open to connection.

Perspectives | Barbara Cheshire | $4800 | 183 x 122cm | Oil washes over sand in acrylic for tiles, building to full bodied oil paint.

I sought to convey the different perspectives in shadows and forms snaking around in a beautiful curve towards the Adelaide Stadium. The composition, reminiscing the illusion of depth, is metaphorically constructed with measured drawing for accuracy, oil and sand for solidity, and full-bodied oil for the treasured Beautiful Memories of place.

And then, home. | Catherine Nguyễn Hoàng | $6000 | 74 x 116 cm | Oil painting on wood panel

My dad built the boat my family sailed on to escape the aftermath of the Vietnam War. We were refugees. We became Australians. Australia is beautiful because its identity grows with those who call it home. It cannot be contained by its shores—or, in this case, a manicured picture frame. Australia offered us refuge, a future. And then, home.

Sandstone Reflections | Lyn Bartolo | $3200 | 56x76cm | Watercolour

While walking in Sydney, I was struck by the warm sandstone against the moody reflections in the windows of Challis House. The contrast felt very human to me. The brightness we show on the surface versus the shadows we carry within. Sandstone Reflections is a reminder that darkness doesn’t take away from beauty, sometimes it helps us see it.

Shoreline Grasses | Tsering Hannaford | $14000 | 56cm x 122cm | Oil on Belgian Linen

Created during my Artist in Residence with Paspaley in the Kimberley, Shoreline Grasses captures the quiet beauty of the meeting between land and sea. Through shifting light, delicate forms and subtle colour, I celebrate nature’s resilience and the poetry found in moments of stillness and close observation.

Contemplation in Florence | Nunzio Miano | $2800 | 47.5cm x 34.5cm | Oil on Italian linen. Painted in Florence, Italy.

Created during my Florence residency, this abstract self-portrait redefines beauty not as an ideal, but as an intimate internal process. Facing an unresolved horizon, the lone figure captures a quiet, vulnerable dialogue with the canvas. Each paint stroke shares a journey of perseverance and longing, finding a profound breakthrough in friction.

The Light Within | Jordan Andreotta | $1500 | 42x30cm | Oil Paint on Board

My painting reflects my own experiences of the Australian landscape, exploring the beauty and sense of connection I feel in remote places. The warm glow of the tent suggests a moment of refuge and belonging within the vast, ancient and untamed outback.

Lucy Mort | Lucy Fekete | $1500 | 37x37cm | Acrylic paint on canvas board

Lucy Mort explores beauty in mortality. The art studio skull, named for both its model and the famous human ancestor Lucy, rests like a Renaissance portrait beneath a tissue-paper ruff. Classical elegance meets the exposed modern spring of its jaw, painted in luminous layers of transparent acrylic.

Beauty in the Mend | gemelle madigan | $14000 | 160x160cm | A quiet process building layer upon layer using oils, acrylics and silver leaf

Khalil Gibran said that “out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”.
We all suffer in life. Death, broken hearts, betrayal, climate, ill health. The thin white rectangles represent this suffering , they are cuts. We display our recovery with courage & honesty.There is Beauty in the Mend

I Am Wilder Flower (Hibiscus Austrinus Juswara) | Lori Pensini | $8500 | 100 x 100 | oil on linen

I use floriography (language of flowers) to communicate complex emotional states & intentions where language is difficult to convey. Here, the native hibiscus represents the divine feminine. It crowns the human form to craft a poignant meditation on resilience, virtue, and the profound interconnectedness of the Australian landscape & self.

Lake Jualbup Rising Mist | Kirsten Hocking | $1700 | 60 x 60cm | landscape painting, oil on wood panel

The dawn sun beams across a misty lake, illuminating the native West Australian vegetation. I observe the angle of early light, the softness of mist and the life that gathers at the water’s edge, seeking to understand the essence of this place. Through painting, I am learning to appreciate the beauty of the land to which I belong.

Jono | Jonathan Duncan | $5000 | 53 x 42cm | Self portrait in oil paint

This self-portrait looks beyond physical appearance to explore the marks left by lived experience. Light reveals what is visible, while shadow conceals what remains unspoken. My ageing face carries a history of strength, vulnerability and change. Through painting, I seek to recognise the value in imperfection and the quiet dignity of being human.

A Dusting Of Gold | Elise Bennett | $3500.00 | 45.7cm x 91.4cm | An Acrylic Painting of a female red tailed black cockatoo

Painted in acrylics, this Australian female Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo proudly perches on a branch among lingering autumn leaves. Sunlight illuminates her beautifully detailed feathers, creating a warm, golden glow, almost as though she has been dusted with gold.

Hybridity | Leah Leventeris | $760 | 30x30cm | oil on marine board

Hybridity captures my daughter in a moment of becoming, where Greek and Australian identities meet. It reflects beauty as transformation, a tender, in-flux negotiation of self shaped across cultures, revealing a deeply human search for belonging and the gentle unfolding of a hybrid identity.

Luminous Vessels II | Kirsten Hocking | $1400 | 50cm x 40cm | oil on canvas

There is a compelling simplicity to these delicate, papery gooseberries, arranged in the glow of the morning sun. This work holds a quality of stillness, where the ephemeral nature of sunlight reveals and illuminates the inherent beauty of nature.

Between Two Notes | Marieka Hambledon | $3950 | 78×58 | Oil on 100% Arches Oil Paper. Palette knife and brush. Framed and mounted.

I made a painting about the electric feeling of anticipation. You breathe in, engulfed by the beauty of the moment, goosebumps on the skin. Painted in oil on paper, hyperrealism is disrupted by palette-knife texture, mirroring the space between stillness and movement.

black rock and brittle stars , Bremer canyon | Megan J Roodenrys | $9000 | 122x 152 cm | Oil on polycotton

Bremer canyon,1000s of metres dep. Cold, crushing pressure and no sunlight, this landscape alien to humans, but is alive with organisms, perfectly evolved to this world. Its beauty is revealed by remote rovers fitted with lights and cameras. This artwork seeks to raise awareness of a landscape just as important as those we directly experience.

Candy Forest | Jay Lord | $1200 | 50x50cm | Oils on paper

Taking a leisurely walk through quiet leafy suburbia. The wind is gentle and the air is warm; the sun is beginning to make its way to the end of the day. With no announcement, presented before you stand a large collection of bollards. With no apparent construction around, does this new context shift the intention of an object towards beauty?

All Quiet | Maureen Harley | $2800 | 90cm x 68cm | watercolour

The true beauty of our early Australian architecture lies in its absolute authenticity with our woolsheds being no exception. They were not built to a specific plan but rather to be functional, meet the needs and foibles of the individual farmer and were dependent on whatever resources were handy, affordable and available at the time of building.

Maverick | Vicki Sullivan | $5000 | H 50cm x W 40cm | oil on linen

Maverick is a tribute to a woman I painted many times and admired for her spirit, individuality and beauty. She never saw this particular painting, but she loved being painted and always danced to her own tune. Now that she is no longer with us, I wanted to honour her memory and celebrate the beauty of a life lived authentically.

LANDSCAPE CONERSATION | rod bax | $4500 | 94CMX100CM | OIL ON CANVAS

I hope the work stimulates some contemplative qualities in the viewer. I look for a sense of quiet wonder and beauty that appears in the river’s reflections, the silence and an awareness of the fragility of this place. This record of the wetlands near Renmark portrays nature as an intricate, interconnected system within an ever-changing world.

Steeped In Memories | Trudi Harley | $4200 | 50cmx65cm | Oil on Linen

Painted in direct response to my upbringing, this work explores how tenuous memories connect us to the past like fragile threads. Objects like detailed lace or distorted reflections in old teapots inspire fascination. Despite their seeming lack of connection, these strange circumstances yield enduring memories that possess no less beauty.

Nasturtiums | Crispin Akerman | $3800 | 460×410 | Oil on linen

The act of painting is a beautiful process, working with an idea, choosing the surface to paint on, the pigments and brushes to use and putting the paint on the linen.
I have been loving working with greens lately and particularly like the Art Nouveau like lines of Nasturtiums.

Lullaby | Rachael Connor | $3000 | 530mm x 525mm | Oil on wood, using tonal underpainting and layered glazing to develop light.

I explore beauty through the quiet vulnerability of sleep. Soft light, muted colour and delicate shadows transform an intimate moment of rest into one of tenderness and stillness. The painting invites reflection on the beauty found in vulnerability, comfort and the fleeting intimacy of an ordinary moment.

Memories Unfolding | Penelope Oates | $9000 | 120 x 160 | Re-purposed folding screen with 6 etched and painted timber panels, acrylic ,ink

This series of paintings, created on a repurposed folding screen, a symbol of femininity but also a deeply personal tribute to my beautiful mother, who passed away from dementia this year. The shifting beauty of the landscape serves as a metaphor for my mother’s memory, blurring the complex terrain of fragility and endurance. Can be wall hung.

Renaissance (Portrait of Florence Steel) | Oliver Self-portrait | $22000 | 56 x 76 cm | Oil and gold leaf on wood panel

This portrait concerns the personal renaissance of artist Florence Steel – the peace of settling into a new, more genuine self and the weariness of what came before. Rich fabrics and her own art motifs speak to her art practice. Her gaze does not reveal – it invites. It is not my place to explain her, only to say: let me introduce you to Florence.

Indigo Night 3 | Jo Darbyshire | $6600 | 120 x 100cm | oil on canvas

I love the beauty of transparent oil colours and their ability to glow. My abstract painting might represent the exact moment the horizon turns from a luminous coral, reflected from the land below, to saturated indigo, whispering of the deep ocean and a midnight sky above. One feels a part of this world when held in thrall to its colours.

Sohrab and Tahmineh | Lauren Sutter | $6800 | 91 x 122cm | oil on canvas

Beauty is not always found in moments of joy. Drawing on the Persian epic Shahnameh, Sohrab and Tahmineh reflects on the beauty of a mother’s love: its tenderness, vulnerability and quiet courage. In a story shadowed by tragedy, it celebrates the fleeting beauty of an intimate moment, and the enduring strength of a bond that transcends fate.

Child’s Play | Sarah Anthony Sarah Anthony | $12000 | 56cm x 46cm | Oil on canvas

I depict my son immersed in the theatre of childhood, his toy scythe both beautiful and unsettling. In this turbulent era of war and division, childhood is fleeting, yet retains its wonder. There is quiet beauty in this tension; innocence standing at the threshold of a complex world. Sam’s uncertain expression reflects my own fears for his future.

Translucence | Marcel Desbiens | $4000 | 91x91cm | Oil on canvas, layered translucent glazes capturing water’s fluid motion.

My painting explores water not as a place but as a state of becoming, light fracturing through movement, color refusing to settle. Bands of green, red, and amber trace a passage rather than a scene. Translucence is a meditation on impermanence: beauty caught mid-transformation, never quite fixed, never quite still.

The Don | Jenna Pickering | $28000 | 45 x 140 | Oil on Piece of Pianola

Our lives a series of moments. Things you see, you touch, you hear.The soundtrack of growin up in Aus lays on the shoulders of few. Dons words fill the air of some of the best & worst moments in our lives. By our side through all. Musicians do more than given credit.Allowin us to feel deeply & sing loudly. Bringing us together,what a beauty that is

Awaken | Sarah Lubcke | $6000 | 40x40cm | Oil on aluminium panel

My painting “Awaken” explores the beautiful complexities of coming out of a place of hiding one-self, capturing the tension in the unveiling. The gemstones symbolise the redemptive beauty that is emerging after seasons of pain, pointing towards healing and a gradual transformation taking place as one lets their guard down and comes into the light.

Tulips In October | Jennifer Allnutt | $3500 | 40x40cm | Oils on Aluminium Composite Panel

These fiery tulips are life itself: it’s vibrancy, it’s beauty and the evanescence of nature. They are surrounded by shifting shadows, dancing in the folds of fabric and captured in a glass sarcophagus. I have a desperate feeling of wanting time to stop racing. To hold onto beauty forever. This work is about the futility of that feeling.

My Broken Fragments | Nina Barnden | $800 | 40.5×30.3cm | Oil on wooden panel

My Broken Fragments reflects on how humour can make us feel valued while simultaneously mask parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. Beneath that facade lies a desire to be accepted, and the possibility that there is something to appreciate in what we assume we need to hide.

Cheval de Napoleon | samuel condon | $1300 | 35 x 27cm | Oil on linen

The history of art is written in the stride of horses. Early painters traced the noble animal on cave walls then paper and canvas, seeking to capture its grace in static earth pigments. Here i depict Napoleons Horse, based on a historical artwork i documented whilst researching art history in a Paris museum.

From the depths (of the deepest ocean) my heart belongs to you | Katherine Edney | $9000 | 120 x 120cm | Oil on plywood

‘From the depths (of the deepest ocean) my heart belongs to you’ is inspired by my daughter’s sequinned mermaid’s tail from the dress up box. I would watch her become enamoured by the flow of sequins catching the light, casting a disco of colours across the floor. The tail is more than a costume, it is a vessel for memory.

Bonny | Chelsea Gustafsson | $650 | 9x14cm | Oil on board

My mum passed away this year. She had dementia and was incredibly frustrated with how it affected her capacity to communicate clearly. Each week we went to the river and she was delighted to discover an interesting leaf or feather, taking home a small bouquet. It was an enriching part of our day to observe the beauty in the smallest of things.

Julia Roberts – North Terrace | Mike Barr | $5500 | 100x100cm | Oil on canvas – freehand modern impressionism

Julia Roberts was in Adelaide on a bus stop billboard on North Terrace in March 2012. Catching buses on the way home from work in March 2012, Adelaide experenced a dramatic and persistant downpour. I sheltered with others in the porch of the Adelaide Post Office with others then walked around Adelaide for r3eference photos that I still use today.

Sacred Ground | Rachelle Dusting | $4950 | 60cmx76cm | Oil on Linen

Sacred Ground is a self-portrait shaped by my experience of endometriosis and the tension between personal ambition and expectations of womanhood. The pomegranate symbolises fertility, faith and possibility. Through intense saturation and light, I explore beauty in the tender uncertainty of identity unfolding between desire and lived experience.

By Any Other Name | Geoff Cunningham | $4500 | 76x102cm | Hand-cut stencil, aerosol and acrylic on perforated steel floated over canvas

‘By Any Other Name’ questions how beauty & identity shift between our human & digital selves. A multi-layered hand-cut stencil is sprayed onto perforated steel, its holes acting as pixels, floated over fluorescent pink canvas. Colours blur & mix in the eye as shifting light & shadow alter the image – echoing the line between the real & virtual.

Annie & Stanley | Ness Lockyer | $7200 | 100x 100cm | Oil paint, layered glazing and fine brush work

Annie’s koi tattoo was created in memory of her parents after their deaths. In this portrait, grief is carried on the body and transformed into something enduring. Set against the softness of the white bedding, the tattoo becomes both memorial and beautiful – a permanent reminder of love, loss and resilience.

Chlorinated Tableau | michael waters | $1000 | 90x90cm | Oil on canvas

My figurative oil paintings are based on family photographs form the 1970s era, with a particular focus on occasions such as birthdays, weddings, pool side holidays, and other milestone events.I question whether the memories we hold of these times are the truth, or instead distorted by our experience of these through their photographic records

In The Balance | Hannah Fox | $3500 | 92 x 76cm | Oil on Canvas

In The Balance explores beauty through the shifting relationship between landscape and memory. Inspired by time spent in Tasmania and Northern NSW, fragments of colour, form and atmosphere are reimagined through intuitive mark-making and layered oil paint, finding beauty in unexpected connections and fleeting moments of balance.

Lightpool | Sophia Masters | $10000 | 76 x 102 cm | Oil on canvas

Lightpool finds beauty in vulnerability: in the unguarded body of my partner caught in a moment of rest. Suspended between presence and absence, his figure yields to the shifting light. I am drawn to these fleeting states, where intimacy makes the ordinary feel luminous.

Resurrection Lillies | Marisha Matthews | $5500 | 120x90cm | oils on linen

The Autumn toned accessories that we might have thrown in the bin in the late 80s, are now vintage treasure. Can painting bring these vanishing artifacts back to the present, recycling the colors and textures in contemporary work? Can we find beauty in the once totally uncool combinations of colour ?

Tumbling Sand Figures | Pilar De la Torre | $4000 | 110 x 79 | Painted in oil on stretched canvas

Inspired by Luca Cambiaso’s Fighting Figures, I explored his geometric approach to the figure and light. I reimagined his 16th-century drawing through my Bayside life and adding colour: playful figures made from sand build a human pyramid, their balance suddenly disrupted by a beach ball.

(Don’t) Pig Out! | Donovan Christie | $20000 | 150x150cm | Oil on Linen

Beauty can emerge from the most unlikely places. (Don’t) Pig Out transforms an iconic Australian birthday cake into a playful reflection on beauty and indulgence, where nostalgia, kitsch and consumption collide. The work asks how context shapes what we find beautiful, and how a painting can elevate the ordinary into something extraordinary.

Party @ Looby’s – A 70 year passion for painting | Kellie Leczinska | $7000 | 140 x 120 | Oil on Canvas

The beauty of Keith Looby’s art lies in his 70-year commitment to painting. An Archibald winner and 15-time finalist, his work lets figures emerge organically by pushing around paint. This gives his art its signature dense structural weight. Refusing to get comfortable, this relentless obsession remains his passion and life.

Garden of Delight | Nick Glade-Wright | $7800 | 112x112cm | oil on linen. Layered colours in abstract shapes, glazing with over-painting.

Using the full palette of the colours of flowers in my garden, through the various seasons, I have created a composite and mysterious garden, unique in appearance. It invites the viewer to scan and wander through the different areas as if walking through an actual garden with luscious combinations of colour and ambiguous shapes.

Allegro profundo | Ignacio Rojas | $1200 | 20 x 40 | oil on PVC

Allegro Profundo is a portrait of my son and part of a body of work reflecting on my journey through chronic illness and healing. His face emerges from loose, broken passages of paint, exploring the tension between realism and expressionism, while reflecting vulnerability, resilience, love, hope and the gradual process of finding my way back

Rodeo Gal | Donna Chess | $620 | 72 cm x 56 cm | Watercolour

I was drawn to the power and strength of this image along with the beauty of the bond between woman and horse. My son’s exgirlfriend rode in rodeos, working together with her beloved horse to try to beat the competition at barrel racing.

Olobor | Joseph Cobiac | $10000 | 90cm(w) x 122cm(h) | Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Beauty is not always delicate. Sometimes it is powerful, weathered and wild. Olobor, known as ‘the calm one’, embodied that contradiction: immense strength in a vulnerable life. This portrait honours his memory and asks us to cherish the irreplaceable beauty of something wild and sovereign, made precious by his absence. All proceeds go to charity.

The Veiled Banana | sheila Whittam | $850 | 50x50cm | oils mixed media drawing materials and collage on cradled wood panel.

This abstract work explores the theme of beauty through lens of vulnerability. Created while looking after my ill husband-layered textures intentionally veil a deeply personal symbol of essential nourishment/potassium. A single, striking red punctuation anchors the core like a heartbeat, proving profound beauty lives in quietest action of devotion.